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Ghost was one of the most disingenuous kickstarters I've ever seen: the features that got people excited got cut pretty much right away, showing that the team w

Ghost was one of the most disingenuous kickstarters I've ever seen: the features that got people excited got cut pretty much right away, showing that the team was never serious about it. The blog itself came to light with some heinous overlooked areas in the user management, stuff that nobody has any right to get wrong in this day and age. My personal opinion after being a user for a while is that we need less of this kind of projects (a LOT less) and more quality software.

pbhjpbhj 11y ago
>the features that got people excited got cut pretty much right away // Could you, or anyone else, expand on this point - what features particularly?
- mattlutze 11y ago
  From a little browsing, there was a quick-start package that looks like didn't actually provide early access. Then from this update [1] they said after the first release they'd introduce plug-ins and the dashboard, of which at least the dashboard had been advertised on the original campaign rather predominantly. They were also showing off multi-user collaboration and the content tools, both of which as well got pushed to after release. Not sure if that's what the previous posters have been talking about. 1: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-blogging-platform/posts/581464 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a...
- cthalupa 11y ago
  The dashboard was one of the biggest selling points. https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/000/511/606/53cb7cffa27c89a43bc91b40f604f7e2_original.jpg?v=1365807289&w=680&fit=max&auto=format&q=92&s=589b58b93da4ba8f96ddef9d9c1483b8 https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/000/511/606/53cb7cffa27c89a... >Ghost grabs all the important data about your blog and pulls it into one place, so you can see it all together. No more clicking through tens of browser tabs to view your traffic, social media subscriptions, content performance or news feeds. Drag and drop the widgets most important to you into your own custom dashboard, and stay on top of your blog's performance. Considering how important social media is for blog growth, this was a really exciting prospect for people. Being able to see all of the details on how your content was doing there, growth figures, etc. It got completely cut.
  - blacksmith_tb 11y ago
    I run Ghost self-hosted, and have been pretty happy with it. If you watch the progress on the next big release ("Zelda") you can see that the dashboard is floating around in there, e.g. https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=dashboard&type=Code https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=da...

pbhjpbhj 11y ago

>the features that got people excited got cut pretty much right away // Could you, or anyone else, expand on this point - what features particularly?

mattlutze 11y ago
From a little browsing, there was a quick-start package that looks like didn't actually provide early access. Then from this update [1] they said after the first release they'd introduce plug-ins and the dashboard, of which at least the dashboard had been advertised on the original campaign rather predominantly. They were also showing off multi-user collaboration and the content tools, both of which as well got pushed to after release. Not sure if that's what the previous posters have been talking about. 1: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-blogging-platform/posts/581464 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a...
cthalupa 11y ago
The dashboard was one of the biggest selling points. https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/000/511/606/53cb7cffa27c89a43bc91b40f604f7e2_original.jpg?v=1365807289&w=680&fit=max&auto=format&q=92&s=589b58b93da4ba8f96ddef9d9c1483b8 https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/000/511/606/53cb7cffa27c89a... >Ghost grabs all the important data about your blog and pulls it into one place, so you can see it all together. No more clicking through tens of browser tabs to view your traffic, social media subscriptions, content performance or news feeds. Drag and drop the widgets most important to you into your own custom dashboard, and stay on top of your blog's performance. Considering how important social media is for blog growth, this was a really exciting prospect for people. Being able to see all of the details on how your content was doing there, growth figures, etc. It got completely cut.
- blacksmith_tb 11y ago
  I run Ghost self-hosted, and have been pretty happy with it. If you watch the progress on the next big release ("Zelda") you can see that the dashboard is floating around in there, e.g. https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=dashboard&type=Code https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=da...